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Morgan State Merit Aid

Morgan State offers full academic and athletic scholarships along with prestigious named awards for high-achieving students.

Verified Jun 20265 days ago· HX-AUTO
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Last verifiedJun 2026Analyst HX-AUTO

Rules that bite at Morgan State

The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Morgan State's own published policy, not generic advice.

  • displacementNo published displacement order

    Morgan State's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.

Who this school is for

High-achieving students with strong academic records should explore Morgan State's institutional awards and named scholarships, which recognize outstanding achievement across multiple disciplines.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $5,815 for 2026-2027. Source

Outside scholarship stacking policy

Students awarded full academic, institutional, or athletic scholarships are not eligible to receive other MSU institutional awards, and students offered multiple full MSU awards must select only one.

Students awarded full academic, institutional, or athletic scholarships are not eligible to receive other MSU institutional awards, and students offered multiple full MSU awards must select only one.

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Lesser-known scholarships at Morgan State

Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.

AmountUp to $500EligibilityThe Martin D. Jenkins Scholarship awards up to the full amount of tuition, fees, approved on-campus room and board, and up to $500 per semester for books, for up to four consecutive years; students must maintain a 3.6 cumulative GPA and the scholarship is considered for incoming freshman applicants only.

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AmountUp to $2,000EligibilityThe Earl S. Richardson Scholarship awards up to $2,000 per year for up to three consecutive years, requires students to maintain the Honors College minimum cumulative GPA of 3.4, is considered for continuing and transfer applicants only, and depends on availability of funds.

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How Morgan State compares across our verified dataset

  • 199 of 751 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.

    Morgan State is in a recognizable cluster (199 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

  • 199 of 751 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.

    Morgan State is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Morgan State’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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